{"id":13985,"date":"2026-07-01T07:03:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T07:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/01\/rustduck-botnet-rebuilds-in-rust-to-html\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T07:03:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T07:03:34","slug":"rustduck-botnet-rebuilds-in-rust-to-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/01\/rustduck-botnet-rebuilds-in-rust-to-html\/","title":{"rendered":"RustDuck Botnet Rebuilds in Rust to Hijack Routers and Servers for DDoS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    RustDuck Botnet Rebuilds in Rust to Hijack Routers and Servers for DDoS<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>A new two-stage malware family called RustDuck is hijacking home routers, IP cameras, Android boxes, and poorly secured servers, then stitching them into a network built to knock websites and online services offline.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at QiAnXin&#8217;s\u00a0XLab\u00a0have tracked it since February 2026, and say the real story is not how big it is today, but how fast it is changing.<\/p>\n<p>The end goal is a<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/06\/rustduck-botnet-rebuilds-in-rust-to.html\">Go to TheHackersNews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RustDuck Botnet Rebuilds in Rust to Hijack Routers and Servers for DDoS A new two-stage malware family called RustDuck is hijacking home routers, IP cameras, Android boxes, and poorly secured servers, then stitching them into a network built to knock websites and online services offline. Researchers at QiAnXin&#8217;s\u00a0XLab\u00a0have tracked it since February 2026, and say [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[76],"class_list":["post-13985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thehackersnews","tag-thehackersnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13985"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}